Portal:Current events/2005 August 6

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• The British politician and former Cabinet Minister Robin Cook dies suddenly at the age of 59. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4127654.stm (BBC)]
• Jimmy Wales clarifies the recent media statements made about possible changes to Wikipedia editorial content. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051125163503/http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027183.html (Mailing list)]
• India and Pakistan announce that they have agreed to give each other advance notice of future nuclear missile tests. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4747631.stm (BBC)]
• Fourteen people are killed when a Tunisian ATR 72 passenger plane carrying 39 passengers and crew ditches in the sea off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/06/world/main763639.shtml (CBS/AP)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050911103955/http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-06T162032Z_01_MOL654124_RTRUKOC_0_CRASH-ITALY.xml (Reuters)]
• Cuban veteran singer Ibrahim Ferrer, vocalist and front man of the Buena Vista Social Club band, dies at the age of 78 [http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7B63CD5FEF-166A-46AC-8532-BB141B1B832A%7D&language=EN (Prensa Latina)] [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cuban singer ferrer dies (Contactmusic)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20050910234447/http://olympics.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-08-07T033419Z_01_N06267699_RTRIDST_0_ENTERTAINMENT-PEOPLE-FERRER-DC.XML (Reuters)]

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